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Petty treason : a Sarah Tolerance mystery by Madeleine E. Robins is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Welcome to Miss Tolerance's Regency London, where nothing is what it seems and the only way to serve justice is to follow conscience rather than law.It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword.Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, a private investigator of sorts--the sole one of her kind in London, in this year of 1810 with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as his Regent. Her aim was to trace lost trinkets, send wastrel husbands back to their wives, and occasionally provide protection to persons with more money than sense--but she is continually drawn into the plots of others. Her newest case poses a puzzle unlike any she has faced before: who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French émigré was beaten to death in his own bed, found by his retainers the next morning, all the doors and windows of the house sealed tight. The murder is a classic locked-room mystery, but Miss Tolerance
Who reads Petty treason : a Sarah Tolerance mystery?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Madeleine E. Robins
- Publisher
- New York: Forge
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780765304001
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14